A Possible Solution

There have been plenty of fantasies about dividing hte country along red-blue borders since the election, such as the map previously posted here. One right wing writer for Human Events has suggested expelling 12 states from the union:

The 12 states that must go: California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland, and Delaware. Only the remaining 38 states would retain the name, "United States of America." The 12 expelled mobs could call themselves the "Dirty Dozen," or individually keep their identity and go their separate ways, probably straight to Hell.

Here's how the author envisions these two areas:

• BUSH USA is predominantly white; devoutly Christian (mostly Protestant); openly, vigorously heterosexual; an open land of single-family homes and ranches; economically sound (except for a few farms), but not drunk with cyberworld business development, and mainly English-speaking, with a predilection for respectfully uttering "yes, ma'am" and "yes, sir."


• GORE/KERRY USA is ethnically diverse; multi-religious, irreligious or nastily antireligious; more sexually liberated (if not in actual practice, certainly in attitude); awash with condo canyons and other high-end real estate bordered by sprawling, squalid public housing or neglected private homes, decidedly short of middle-class neighborhoods; both high tech and oddly primitive in its commerce; very artsy, and Babelesque, with abnormally loud speakers.

As previously noted here, the residents of Bush USA might miss the blue state residents who are paying more than their share of taxes, which wind up paying for government programs in the red states. Their distaste for the ethnically diverse and those holding different religious views is not unexpected, but it is kind of the author to provide such clear verification of our suspicions about them.

Looks like a plan to me--as long as those of us living in other blue states can come along too!